This paper examines the role of software piracy in digital platforms where a platform provider makes a decision of how … much software to produce in-house and how much to outsource from a third-party software provider. Using a vertical … differentiation model, we theoretically investigate how piracy influences the software outsourcing decision. We find that when piracy …

in the software market, and the effect that these have on the optimal level of protection. A large number of surveys have … been undertaken to analyse the characteristics of software pirates and their incentives to pirate. This paper attempts to …

The software industry frequently maintains that software piracy is no more than theft and a cause of huge losses …. Courts and other policy makers easily adopt that straightforward argument. Surprisingly, however, many software publishers do … not employ any technological measures to protect their software from piracy and many popular software products are …

We study the question of whether a software vendor should allow users of unlicensed (pirated) copies of a software … product to apply security patches. We present a joint model of network software security and software piracy and contrast two … policies that a software vendor can enforce: (i) restriction of security patches only to legitimate users or (ii) provision of …